Carpet



(No Model.)

G. J. BIOKNELL.

CARPET.

No. 390,435. Patented Oct. 2, 1888.

UNITED STATES v EEIGE.

PATENT CARPET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,435, dated October 2, 1.888.

Application filed November 5, 1887.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. BIGKNELL, of Melrose. county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Carpets, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel carpet.

My invention consists, essentially, in a carpet composed of a printed fabric plaited upon and stitched to a strong backing fabric, as will be described.

Figure 1 represents a small piece of face fabric employed in my improved carpet before the same is printed. Fig. 2 represents the fabric shown in Fig. l as printed. Fig. 3 representsthe backing fabric, and Fig. lrepresents the face fabric plaited upon the backing.

In accordance with my invcnlion aface fabric, as shown in Fig. 1, is woven, preferably, from woolen yarn,or wool and mixtures thereof, and thereafter the said fabric is printed at suitable intervals in various colors, according to the design to be shown in the carpet. This face fabric will be printed substantially as the sheet of warp is now printed for use in the Serial No. 254,342. (No model.)

manufacture of tapestry Brussels carpets, leaving a fabric partially colored and partially uncolored, care being taken, but all in usual manner, that when the fabric a is plaited or brought into loop form and secured to the backing, as b, of a cheaper and stronger ma terial, as jute or cotton, by sewing-machine stitches c the colored portions will cooperate to form a pattern for the carpet.

The carpet described may be quickly and cheaply made, and when finished will form a strong, serviceable, and durable fabric.

I claim-- 1. The herein-described carpet,composed of a printed fabric plaited or stitched in loop form, as shown, to a backing, b, substantially as described.

2. A carpet composed of a woven fabric, as a, of one material, and a backing, I), of a different material, to which the fabric a is plaited and stitched transversely, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. J. BICKNELL.

\Vitnesses:

JAS. H. GIIURGHILL, J OHN O. EDWARDS. 

